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Youth has a quickness of apprehension, which it is very apt to mistake for an acuteness of penetration.
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Parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.
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Nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.
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We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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Born:
February 2, 1745
Died:
September 7, 1833
(aged 88)
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